Dr Fay Bound Alberti
Senior Research Fellow in History
Location: Arts Two 4.09email: f.boundalberti@qmul.ac.uk
Personal website www.fayboundalberti.com
Dr Fay Bound Alberti’s first degree was in History and English from the University of Wales. She subsequently gained her MA from the University of York, before completing her DPhil in History at York in 2000. The subject of her postgraduate research was the analysis of church court records in order to construct a history of emotions as cultural performances. During her academic career, Dr Bound Alberti has received grants from the British Academy, the Institute of Historical Research and the Wellcome Trust to work on several strands of emotion research in medical and cultural history. Recent publications include an edited collection, Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950 (Palgrave, 2006) and Matters of the Heart: Locating Emotion in Medical and Cultural History (Oxford University Press, 2010). She has taught at the universities of London, Manchester and Lancaster as well as for the Open University. Fay is a founding member of the Steering Committee for the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/emotions/ She will be on research leave during 2011.
Research interests:
Dr Bound Alberti’s research interests include the histories of medicine and emotion between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, gender history, women’s history, the history of science and the history of the body. She is particularly interested in the application of gender analysis and literary theory to the study of the past. More broadly, Dr Bound Alberti is interested in the politics and practice of heritage preservation, having been involved in several exhibitions and public events – most notably with the Wellcome Trust – and in her capacity as Head of Philanthropy for the private philanthropic fund, Arcadia (www.arcadiafund.org.uk). Fay is also increasingly involved in questions around open access, publication and the practice and politics of history teaching in the digital age.
Publications:
Monographs and Edited Collections
This Mortal Coil: How the Modern Body Was Made (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Matters of the Heart: Locating Emotions in Medical and Cultural History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). 'Highly Commended' by the History Today Book of the Year award.
(Ed), Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006).
Peer Reviewed Articles
‘Democratic access to academic knowledge’ - http://www.opendemocracy.net/fay-bound-alberti/briefing-on-open-access-and-policy-reform
‘Bodies, Emotions and Historians, Or Why the History of the Heart Matters to Historians of Science and Medicine’, Isis, 100, 4 (2009).
‘Heartfelt Emotions’, The Lancet, 9689 (2009), pp.519-520.
‘Angina Pectoris and the Arnolds: Emotions and Heart Disease in Nineteenth-Century Medical Culture’, Medical History, 52 (2008), pp.221-236.
‘A Victim of Violence or the Vapours? Case Study of an Eighteenth-Century Separation Suit’, Medizin Gesellschaft und Geschichte (2005), 24, pp.47-57.
‘An “Angry and Malicious Mind”? Narratives of Slander at the Church Courts of York, c.1660-c.1760’, History Workshop Journal, 56 (2003), pp.59-77.
‘Writing the Self? Love and the Letter in England, c.1660 - c.1760’, Literature and History, 11 (2002), pp.1-19.
Book chapters
‘The Heart of Emotions’ in James Peto (ed.), The Heart (Yale University Press, 2007), pp.125-142.
‘Emotion Theory and Medical History’ in Fay Bound Alberti (ed.), Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp.xiii-1.
‘Emotions in the Early Modern Medical Tradition’ in Fay Bound Alberti (ed.), Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006), pp.1-21.
‘An “Uncivill” Culture: Marital Violence and Domestic Politics in York, c.1660-c.1760’ in Mark Hallett and Jane Rendall (eds), Eighteenth-Century York: Culture, Space and Society (York: Borthwick, 2003), pp.50-58.
Short Pieces
‘The Body’, Lancet, 9621 (2008), p.1329.
‘Hypochondria’, Lancet, 9505 (2006), p.105.
‘Anxiety’, Lancet, 9418 (2004), p.1407.
‘The Physiology of Emotions in England, c.1660-c.1820’, Wellcome History, 25 (2004), pp.4-5.